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Irritating American names for things

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  • #1102
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,170 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    riclad wrote: »
    Working class dubs say ma not mom
    Americans who come here probably find it odd if someone says have you got a fag
    meaning cigarette

    Or “can I bum a fag?”


  • #1103
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,170 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    A weird one is "cissy" or sissy. It used to be used as an insult in primary school, dont think any of us ever knew the real meaning behind it except that it was implying a fellow who liked "girlish" stuff. However youd never hear it into secondary school or adulthood. Which is why I always find it funny when you hear it in American films, tv etc by adult men to insult each other.

    “Then I took out my razor blade
    And I did what god forbade
    Now the cops are after me
    But I proved that I’m no sissy “


  • #1104
    764dak
    Registered Users Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭764dak


    From the NBA: threepeat



  • #1105
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    they used to be called runners ,before sneakers became premium fashion items worth 100s of dollars.

    english changes all the time, theres dozens of words that came from tech, or the web, lol, selfie, i have never heard an irish person say the word mom, the irish say ma, mammy, mother,



  • #1106
    Markcheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,574 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    They've been runners and sneakers for years over here - I think trainers was more a UK thing originally...

    I'm old enough to remember them being rubber dollies in cork ... ( Although rarely heard it )

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #1107
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,457 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117185141#Comment_117185141

    How are you for the plural? "All y'all"



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